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The super is a fool if he thinks that there will be immediate changes at some of these schools. You can't go in a just erase years of not caring about education in a couple of months. He should have went to Westlawn and spent some serious time over at the school to see what the teachers and admin. have had to deal with over the years. If the parents don't care then the kids won't care about their education.

Barone, Mahogany Row has been the way it is for years. It started way before HHA brought any property over there. I was born here and grew up in South Huntsville. I went to Grissom, which I am sure you know is right down the street and it was on it's way down in the early to mid 90'swhen I was in high school there. I had several friends that lived over there it was like that when they lived in the apartments and condos in the area. Sorry but it's not HHA fault for the shape the area is in.

It's not just Hampton Cove that has this problem. One thing we have learned at my middle child's school is that calling and complaining about the quality of food that is being served to the kids gets you know where. The teachers have even called and complained to the Child Nutrition Office and they do nothing at all. I am at the point that it is time to go above the Child Nutrition Office and start complaining to the superintendents office. Serving the kids burnt and cold food is wrong. For some of these kids the only meals they get are at school. For a child to go hungry because of the cooks not caring is really sad. If the kids at Ed White complain about the food being burnt or cold the cooks just tell them to get over it and bring their own food. Something needs to be done about this.

Maybe they can work on the cooks over at Ed White Middle School serving the kids burnt and cold food almost daily over there. Last time I checked baked sweet potatoes were supposed to be orange on the inside when you bake them and not resemble a lump of coal on the inside when they are finished. The cheese on the pizza is still supposed to be white and not the color of tree bark when it is cooked. The Central Office needs to make sure that the kids can actually eat the foods that some of these school lunchrooms are serving these kids before they do anything else. When the teachers call and complain to the Child Nutrition Office and they do nothing about the quality of food that they are serving these kids it is time to make some changes.

I am a parent of 2 students at NCTHS and was also at the meeting the other night. From the tone of most of the parents wanting to coexist with the Lee students is not something that most of the parents want according to what was said at the meeting by them. "One parent had the audacity to say that she didn't even want her child eating lunch with the kids from Lee." Another said that the students don't want to learn, there are way to many discipline problems at Lee or my child will not be able to focus if they are at Lee because of the other students being disruptive. There was even one that said that her child would not be able to get into school if he goes to Lee because Lee is not one of the top high schools in the nation. One of the teachers even said "We take pride in the fact that NCHS is a multicultural school and would lose that if they move over to Lee. Need I go on? There are very few of us that have not issue at all with are kids moving over to Lee. NCHS parents who are on their high horse need to get off it because the kids that go there are no better than the ones at Lee.

I was at the meeting last night at New Century with the superintendent. I think the only reason they are looking into changing the name of the school is because of the uproar from most of the parents last night about New Century no longer being a school after this year and it will no longer have the name New Century it will just be a program inside the new Lee High.

I agree with lizzyle. The kids that stay right down the street from Ed White and Highlands go all the way to Providence when they could just go right across the street to their neighborhood schools. I am sure sending those kids to the schools would have helped with the over crowding. HCS needs to get it together quick fast and in a hurry.

I hope Providence Elementary does not make the parents purchase ridiculously priced uniforms from the Educational Outfitters Store like Williams Middle School. I hope that the uniform policy is not as strict as Williams is. Does Williams have a plan in place for the parents that can't afford to buy uniforms from Educational Outfitters? Will they have vouchers or something like that for the parents? Why wait until 2 weeks before school starts to let the parents know that they will be wearing uniforms? I am sure that most parents have already started buying their kids school clothes. That is irresponsible on the schools part to wait so late.

Oh yes we know that the good upstanding white people never do anything wrong. White people never cause any type of disturbance out in public or elsewhere. They are fine, holier than thou, never break the law, tax paying citizens that do no wrong. There are no white people that receive P.A. or Medicaid, or any other type of government assistance. Oh no, white kids would never be thugs, only minorities can be thugs. I guess that one can assume that all white people are racist, prejudice, serial killers or go around with little pointy hats and bed sheets on their heads shouting how much better they are than blacks and other races of people? As usual white is the only thing that is right. Right?

I have 2 kids that go to Highlands. Mr. Livingston sits in his office all day long with the door shut. He doesn't interact with the students at all. He doesn't take issues that arise at the school seriously.
If a parent calls you and tells you that they picked up their child after school and she was having such trouble breathing because of her asthma her shoulder were all hunched over. Not only that she was wheezing very loud. No one called me all day about my daughter. The teacher told my daughter that it was just allergies and sinus problems when she asked to go to the clinic. The only thing Mr. Livingston had to say was "well we can't have that can we?" It happened twice after that. Both times I called him again. He was totally nonchalant about the whole thing. I ended up having to call downtown in order to get something done about it. There have been one too many complaints about him. It is time for him to go.

I think it is wrong that her kids have missed so many days without a good cause. Why such a big picture? I hate that the media doesn't think about what the kids might have to go through at school as far as teasing is concerned when they splash their parents faces all over the news. Especially school age kids. Kids are cruel these days. I have seen what it does first hand to them in situations like this.

Milo, where would you suggest that all the kids go to school if they only keep open the predominately white schools and close the predominately black ones?

Harell, I agree with you to a certain point. I love the idea of rotating the teachers and principals every few years. I think that it would benefit the students at some of the under-performing schools. We parents play a big part in our kids future. We have to push them to get an education and stress how important is. I do my part as a parent. Unfortunately, there are some teachers who are just there for a pay check or they only want to do the bear minimum. That is something I am dealing with now. My kids algebra teacher does not help the kids when needed. When they ask she just tells them that she did a couple of examples on the board and there are some in the book. She refuses to help them anymore. The social studies teacher has no clue what he is doing. He doesn't check their work and just gives them a grade. He even gives them a grade for work that they have not done when they are not even at school. Just had this happen to my son who was in the hospital for 5 days. He had grades for classwork and homework and he was in the hospital. The kids can all have the same answers because they did group work and yet they all have different grades. He just gives them what ever grade he fills fit to give them. All of the kids complain about the same thing with both teachers. These are issues that I am having to address right now at their middle school.
Maybe by rotating teachers and principals they will give these students the chance to have the teachers that they deserve. Maybe it would also help to weed out all of the bad apples in the bunch. At some of the poorer schools there is little to know parent participation what so ever. You get stuck between a rock and a hard place because you never get a chance to talk to the parents. The school can only do so much with the students. It all starts at home.

Whoever took his O2 please give it back to him ASAP! Somewhere in his simple minded, bigoted mind he actually believes all of it. "Blacks can't perform as well in A.P. classes". Mr. Mcinnish you just probably helped to prove one of the DOJ's point with your ignorant way of thinking.

Hsvnatv,. so what you are telling me is that because someone has more friends of a certain race on their facebook profile then they are racist? You came to this conclusion how? Is it some written rule that says you must have x amount of friends on your facebook or twitter accounts to be unbiased? Normally, your friends are the people that you are surrounded by on a daily basis at work, school or in your neighborhood. With D.C. being almost 60% black that might have something to do with it. Just like if your child goes to say Grissom seeing how it is a predominately white schools then your child would have more white friends. Just like my kids go to predominately black schools so they have more black friends than white. Seriously, you can't say someone is a racist because they have more friends of a certain race.

Shameful, there are thugs at every school. And not the one that are bussed in. People like you seem to believe that the kids in certain schools (South Huntsville schools) can do no wrong. You seem to think that the kids down there can't be thugs, sell drugs, not care about getting an education, or they can't have parents that are not involved. You are dead wrong! Those kids aren't any better than the ones on the North end of town. I was born and raised in South Huntsville. I went to Farley, Challenger and Grissom. I know very well what goes on in those schools.
Dahill, I agree with you completely. I went to Grissom and the stuff I saw from day to day was crazy. The thing is with those kids they can afford the designer drugs like X, acid and Rx drugs. They smoke weed just like many of the other kids too. Of course you never heard about it in the news because of where the school was located. There are some who want to keep blind folds over their eyes to the things that go on in certain schools because they feel they have so much class.

What I want to know is how many people they laid off in the Central Office? I still have yet to hear that one. Laying off the school nurses is crazy. There are far too many students in the schools that have major health issues like asthma and diabetes. The people in the front office are pretty much worthless when it comes to situations like these. They dont' know what to do. That is something that I have seen first hand. The state that the system is in is just sad. All of it could have been avoided.

There is far too much time spent preparing for Standardized Testing. Some of these kids are not being prepared for high school. They need to quit all this testing and prepare these kids for their future.

It takes the parents and the school in order for our children to get an education. The problem some of our kids run into is that there are teachers that aren't doing their jobs. They are teachers that are telling are kids that they won't teach them material because it is something that they were already taught. Never do they stop to think that maybe they weren't taught the material. They don't want to give them their makeup work when they are absent. You have to go through hoops to get it. There are teachers that don't care. There are also parents that don't care. Those of us that do care are doing everything in our power to make sure that our kids are getting their education on our end. I am poor as far as money is concerned but that has not stopped me from instilling in my kids the importance of getting their education. The teachers need to also do their part. It is time for HSC to look at other ways to try and reach the kids that are having so many problems when it comes to learning. Figure out what the problem is.